June, 2004
Civil Engineering Senior Design Students win $25,000

May, 2004
Junior Christina Terpeluk has been awarded a Vredenburg Scholarship for engineering study abroad. 

April, 2004

Hopkins CE aids in the Maryland Wood Bridge Challenge

January, 2004

Senior Liakos Ariston's Isler inspired thin-walled ice structures

Senior Ryan Hanley named Mitchell Scholar
Senior Ryan Hanley has been awarded a George J. Mitchell Scholarship for 2004-2005. The Mitchell Scholarships allow Americans to pursue one year of post-graduate study in any discipline offered at institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The George J. Mitchell Scholarships, named in honor of the former Senator's pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, are intended to familiarize and engage the next generation of America's leaders with the island of Ireland. Ryan plans to spend a year of study at Trinity College, Dublin.

October, 2003

The Department's undergraduate program has been ranked 17th by U.S. News and World Report in its annual educational rankings of undergraduate programs in schools with Ph.D. programs. This is the fourth year the Department has been ranked among the top 25, moving up at least 2 places each year since 2001.

A new design method for cold-formed steel structures, authored by Assistant Professor Ben Schafer, has recently been adopted by the American Iron and Steel Institute Committee on Specifications for Cold-formed Steel Structures. The method is based on Professor Schafer's research in combining numerical methods with traditional design procedures in order to provide more flexible and robust design rules for thin-walled steel structures. Research related to this new method recently received the American Society of Civil Engineer's (ASCE) Collingwood Prize, a society wide award for an outstanding paper authored by an ASCE member under 35. In addition, a presentation of the new method given at the annual ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) congress in Seattle tied for best presentation at the congress. Articles discussing the numerical method which supports the new design process have appeared in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering magazines. Professor Schafer will receive his Collingwod Prize, and reprise his ASCE-SEI congress presentation at the upcoming ASCE National convention in November. For more information go to Professor Schafer's web site.

Steve Kelly '98, '99 was recently profiled as part of the ASCE "New Faces of Civil Engineering." This website highlights the achievements of outstanding young civil engineers. See the story at the ASCE website.

Professor Benjamin Schafer has been awarded the 2003 Collingwood Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his paper Local, Distortional, and Euler Buckling of Thin-Walled Columns.

The Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Lian Shen will be joining the faculty as Assistant Professor in January, 2004. Dr. Shen comes to Hopkins from M.I.T., where is is currently a Research Scientist in their Department of Ocean Engineering. Dr. Shen's research interests include ocean engineering, coastal processes, and environmental fluid flows. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology (Hefei, China) and his Doctor of Science degree from M.I.T.

Freshman Allan Olson is a recipient of a Summer Provost's Undergraduate Research Award. The title of Alan's project is "Network Modeling of Polycrystals."

Sam Phillips, a junior in Civil Engineering, is part of a group of seven Hopkins students who traveled to NASA headquarters in Houston to conduct experiments studying how liquids mix on a surface when gravity is not a factor. See the article in the Hopkins Gazette on-line.

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